skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if we've managed to rebuild and patch Hyper-V Manager from source, this is not enough for a real community project to take place. As much as I would like to just upload the decompiled source code to GitHub to start making significant changes to it, there's no legal standing for this project. I can only go as far as streamlining the process of decompilation such that others can experiment making changes locally.

I don’t know what I’m missing here but something about this whole idea rubs me the wrong way. Who in their right mind is going to do this in a production environment where there is no apparent possibility to have a shared repository for the updates? And no possibility of any support or warranty (for what it’s worth). It’s worth about the price of whatever clicks the blog post generated.

It’s not like the software is that old. I don’t blame him for disliking the powershell interface but this isn’t the answer.
Because of legal requirements?
There's this: https://github.com/StevenReiss/bubbles

I think Andrew Bragdon moved on from it and Steven Reiss (one of his coadvisors when Andrew initially created it) has appropriated it to some extent. Seems mostly dead though.
> Hence the company has to keep hiring these same consultants year after year on hugely inflated costs.

There it is. There's good scratch to be made in prolonging the problem.
Well in this case it's the frontpage. That makes little sense. If it's further inside the application, it can become very difficult, but this is just when you click start now and you are stuck. That makes no sense.
That's technically and theoretically true but also largely practically irrelevant.

Consider a building or a server. You can absolutely make them secure. Sure, eventually, everything can be broken/bypassed/hacked/cracked whatever, but if there is no chance of that happening for the duration that the security has to persist, then it is secure.
Unfortunately we enter into new era where MAD is no longer applicable to Russia. Their sarmat has 100% effective target couple woth superb AD while current ICBMs operations tested in America and UK are absymal with equivalent ineffective THAAD and Patriots. It is interesting to see how this asymetrical MAD will play out in coming years.
You're spreading FUD, the Swedish government can't do shit to Mullvad but take their servers offline. Possibly if it was a matter of national security, at which point our recommendations are useless either way.
It's bad enough that they live on somebody else's computer
Obligatory video, NSFW (lots of swearing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg

"Node.js is bad ass rock star tech".
Titanium backup was pretty fast. Just give root by default already.
You aren't trying to send an angular SPA in an email, are you?
It sounds like there's no good review process for these; if they lack substance or are too long, they should never be published. But I take it that the people responsible for the people writing these also get the benefits?
Shameless plug: I built my own MUA with ~300 lines of shell glue and the fantastic mblaze for mail handling and fzf for navigating, displaying and doing custom actions. Thanks to fzf I can declare shortcuts that will do whatever I need to do with the given email (reply, filter with the same subject, open attachments, whatever it is I need)

Don't look too closely at the specific code, it is all custom to my own use and that's my point: thanks to fzf it is trivial to build powerful TUIs with minimal code, so minimal in fact that you, the user, can do it yourself. Configuration is unneeded because your own actions are the configuration.
It focuses on Proton because Proton is the link that purports to be secure. Nobody expects Apple or telcos to guard your identity.
The best definition of depression I've read.
https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in...
https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/05/depression-pa...
Show HN: An "AI wrapper" that creates beautiful LinkedIn Carousels
Hey HN, I'm Ankit, Founder Dottypost (https://twitter.com/ankit_saas)

I've been writing content on LinkedIn for almost 2 years.

But, the struggle to do consistent posting is real.

So I built an AI SaaS that helps with LinkedIn content creation effortlessly.

We'd love to get your feedback on the product and anything else that comes to your mind. It would be super useful for us. Thank you!
In my opinion this has to be local and/or open source to get serious uptake. I really find it hard to trust slurping my codebases through some 3rd party site. Unless it's something well known and huge (aka can be sued when abuse comes out), I cannot see me using it on anything except open source projects.
Indeed, Google and Amazon have already shown an interest in designing their own silicon (TPU and Graviton). Probably Microsoft too, but I'm not aware of an example off the top of my head.

Upstarts are not easily going to be able to pursue that, so NVidia has a strong interest in supporting them.
(2020)

Some more discussion then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23915521
> Estimated finish by: Sat Dec 21 3901

Still better than export.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Design_Group#cite_note-...
No Black Holes from Light
Complete example without eval:

def f(): pass
f.__code__ = f.__code__.replace(co_consts=())
f()
Why do you recommend a heartbeat table to mitigate WAL slot growth if the PeerDB Stream targets a specific table? Presumably this means that the WAL slot is subscribed to all table changes, even if only specific tables are actually included in the CDC? Why not just subscribe to the WAL that you need?
Are you talking about decorators? Very confused trying to parse what you're saying in the context of python.
what are you insinuating? I still need to be spelt out. Are you saying that ISP's gateway device have any incentives to decloak my vpn traffic? Sounds like a huge liability for no reason? Surely they will be out of business it sounds so bad?
Yeah, I re-read it every once in a while to feel like "it's not just me; everything really is messed up".
Pentesting for Startups: 1 asset free account
Does anyone know how you can suggest to add more dishes?

This would be the strength of a wiki type thing where it's easier to collaborate
That's not true and a very much defeatist view. Yes, you can talk with people if they're willing to listen and maybe even respond. Yes, even if they're extremely popular already. Even if they're richer than you.
Yes! Although I think you forgot one, the "please just let me start coding" doc.
Defense Against AI-Guided Traffic Analysis (Daita)
Actually, you have a bug that has been unfixed for 5 years now. I know because I submitted it. Still no action.

Here's my last message to Proton Mail support, request ID 822331. I was directly told no resources would be spent on fixing it:

> Well, it has been multiple years now so can you guys maybe prioritize this? How long do you want me to continue waiting on this issue? I can't count on PM users to send my mailserver E2EE mail when the mobile app doesn't support it.
absent mindedness is still conscious tho. And sleepwalking is not the level of function im talking. You can't do your job while sleepwalking. I'm not convinced humans can do intelligent work without being conscious. No such states that i've seen anyways.
> With buybacks... what did that $100B spent do for me, anyway?

It raised the stock price so now you can sell and make some profit, before others sold and the price went down again.

The higher price also makes the company look more credit-worthy, so they could borrow money at a lower rate? And then but more stock ;-)
Freshcode.club: A reimplementation of Freshmeat and FreeCode
Should I run NPM run build/prod on dev or prod?
Why Haven't Hoverbikes Taken Off?
Kind of. Though if outlook magically goes away we'll still make emails with <table> because most clients still do not support even flex-direction. Outlook is just exceptionally bad with stuff like width:100px working on table elements, but not on <div>, or padding working only on specific elements.
Somewhere on the web is the internet hair club for physicists. Is there anything similar for mathematicians, I wonder.
My husband has become a Vim peasant – please advise
Soooooo happy that my mail client is not even on the list here. It automatically strips out anything remotely looking like html and it sends out plain text emails only, as email was designed to be and should still be.

Anyone sending me css garbage will be directed to /dev/null. Thanks.
Yes, I thought so LOL

Lots of comments, but yet the downvotes! :-)

I guess I'm long past being on the internet for upvote points LOL
i run mine in prod. better to build on the machine you're running the code on. I'm sure people here will say otherwise, but that's what I do and it works fine.
Early Unices had a structured FORTRAN.
India targets deepfakes as largest democratic event unfolds
> The term "self-awareness" implies awareness, which might be what's meant by consciousness

Well, most animals have awareness, but not self-awareness.

> there's a Self, which is a metaphysical concept, not susceptible to scientific invetigation.

That doesn't seem to be true at all. The idea of a self is very testable.
If musk will have another of his egomaniacal bouts and takes reigns, very bad stuff can happen. He is totally unpredictable at this point in any direction, does outright stupid childish decisions, being bipolar/borderline or whatever is exactly his diagnosis can be a disaster in right conditions for everybody and everything around him.

But yes as long as he keeps actually skilled and stable people managing his stuff it should be fine, more than fine.
There's plenty of alternative UIs for Hacker News, either via browser extension or smartphone app. What would the distinguishing feature be between your UI and the other existing ones?
Tesla Stock's Towering AI Valuation Is Detached from Reality
This is a fair concern.

> Does anyone know more about the security of the 8-round form and whether we should be concerned?

This is the latest cryptanalysis I could find (see Table 2 and 3 for an overview):

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10410840

We don't even have an attack against ChaCha8. While it is likely one will appear as cryptanalysis improves, it is far less likely such an attack will ever become practical.

But obviously, not everyone from within the cryptographic community would agree with JP Aumasson either. For example, DJB had this to say 1 year and 5 months before "Too Much Crypto" first appeared on the IACR ePrint archive: https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/1023969586696388613.

So in conclusion; somewhat inconclusive? Going by the results so far, ChaCha8 is probably fine.
I _think_ the novel claim here relates to how easy it is to maintain the position, but the benefits of the position.
> I really find it hard to trust slurping my codebases through some 3rd party site.

Everybody seems fine with doing just that on github.
A fly is aware and conscious. It is not self-aware, nor does it likely have a consciousness.
Besides my other comment ; I like this idea and I have been thinking a lot about code understanding and overviews. As I get older I notice my memory degrading and I read a lot of codebases for my work, hobbies etc; many are very over architected and pretty annoying to grok. How can you rapidly understand where a specific functionality is? Etc. Codebases that have been thought out, nicely organised etc are a joy, but many, especially, newer ones I see, take going across 10+ files (in 5 packages) (with a number of build steps) to add/change a simple thing. And IDE's are not helping with that at all.

Luckily I usually find the patterns used and know the tools and libraries used, but indeed some things make me sigh deeply as I know i'm in for a dig in a pit of the damned when having to diagnose + fix something.
Here's a small research tome I collected yesterday. Please note that I have access to all of the papers' full texts. I was unable to find the original papers I read at that time (i.e. 7 years ago!), but found the video which brought me to the entrance of the rabbit hole.

- The base video I have talked about is from TedED. It's here [0].

- This study was done on rats in 1985 but verifies that caffeine tolerance is real [1].

- Another controlled study on humans about caffeine tolerance [2] involved one group taking caffeine and the others taking a placebo. Caffeine drinkers taking the placebo reported withdrawal symptoms, and non-drinkers taking caffeine reported overstimulation.

- A meta-study [3] details the symptoms and durations of caffeine withdrawal's effects. The paper cites that effects persist between 2 to 9 days, and the peak of the syndrome is around 20 to 51 hours. It also notes that caffeine introduction during this phase alleviates symptoms (This study basically confirms that what I have gone through after I stopped drinking coffee as I noted in a previous comment).

- This interesting study [4] explores the body's caffeine response via blood pressure change. Subjects are administered high doses of caffeine, and blood pressure is monitored. After day three, the blood pressure normalizes, and spikes disappear. The abstinence required to reset the pressure response is less than three weeks, pointing that the body resets caffeine tolerance in less than three weeks.

If you need the papers, or want more resources, please let me know.

Have a nice day.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOjvYRgjCyU

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0024320585...

[2]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02245285

[3]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00213-004-2000-x

[4]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC370671/
I have not tried it currently, because I had so far completely failed to realise it existed.

Muchas gracias and I'll have to have a look next time I'm in a suitably masochistic mood for k8s hackery.
I think it’s incentives.

Boeing is not incentivized, nor has it been for a long, to do a good job.
Yeh I kinda threw that out there and wasn't the clearest but yes I'm 100% in agreement that everyone is somewhere on the spectrum and I guess we need to reach a place as a society where everyone is okay with that and that there are thresholds where intervention and disorder verbiage makes sense and thresholds where perhaps a conservative approach is sufficient (and these can change over an individuals life).

Totally true that the DSM uses concrete cutoff values in an attempt to limit subjectivity, given that, what do you think is driving "overdiagnosis"? Eg. given we have guidelines in place?

> I think it's unhelpful if folks who (for example) like their TV to be set to an even number talk about 'their OCD'.

I guess we can agree that a tiktok mental health awareness is a poor substitute for a proper education (broad, balanced, evidence based etc). The sad thing is tiktok awareness is popular because people just aren't getting good information elsewhere.

At the same time I don't think gatekeeping is particularly good, the folks who struggle the most are often the quietest.
> How can this phenomenon be reigned in and sorted in the medium to long-term?

This is a valid question, but one that has a historical and clear answer already: Guillotines. Pretending this behaviour is anything short of deserving of immediate execution is frankly doing yourself and everyone around you a huge disservice.

These are people that exploit others at scale. They know what they're doing isn't right and is extremely exploitative, but they'll keep doing it anyway because it lets them live like modern kings and queens. They're the worst of what humanity has to offer and they should summarily be fired into the sun.
How to Run Complex Queries with SQL in Vector Databases
Before getting on that vehicle I'd want to wait a while first to make sure whistleblowers against Boeing stop dropping dead so often.
Email is not private, and can't be made so. Email is my preferred communications channel, but I treat it as I would a mailing list or comment forum; it's almost completely unlike whispering to someone in the middle of an empty field.
A bit hard to belive they would toss types in the water out of laziness given these types would be relatively expensive and the typesetters would need them to keep their job.

The particular case seem to be a deliberate act of sabotage which sound more believable.

Throwing worn-out or broken types and other tools in the river would probably be common though.
> what's more plain-text would force to provide just a link without all the tracking garbage

I'm glad that you never ever received any link to some derivation of st.es.rui.tracking/bzzz/pfrrrrt?campaign=hn that hide the real link, but in the real world, that's how tracking is done. Plain text doesn't prevent anything.

> not sure if needed, besides you can attach images to plain text (though not inlining) or click-able links to external sources (at exact place)

For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

You want to argue that plain text is better, but your arguments are that plain tex, are better for you. Don't make the mistake to assume that your specific experience is a workable average.
> grossly out of touch and seemingly delusional politicians

This has completely taken over the GOP, and yet you can't see that reflected in Elon's tweets.
JavaScript Decorator Tests
Thanks for these links!

I picked out one at random just to check if my skeptical reaction is fair: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/...

- OK, this is actually a really good and useful doc!

- However, it's not an up-front design doc, it has clearly been written after the bulk of the work has been done, to explain and justify rolling out a big change. (See the "implementation history" timeline: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/...)

- It looks like the template wasn't very useful; most of the required sections are marked "N/A", and there are comments like The best test for work like this is, more or less, "did it work?"
Please refrain from personal attacks, its against the rules and generally seen as a basic failure to communicate your opinions in mature way.

Also, I have yet to fly a single plane in Europe made by Boeing, since they started messing up badly I notice this aggressively and so far 0. Sure with small kids we do now only up to 4h flights, but we fly to other continents, and everything is Airbus or Embraer. We plan to keep it that way.
Printable versions of Roche's famous biochemical pathways poster
I've been using `math/rand` instead of `crypto/rand` where `crypto/rand` was absolutely needed. This resulted in static keys being used in early versions of dnscrypt-proxy2.

The reason is that I'm using the VSCode extension that automatically adds imports. In all the source files requiring secure randomness, I carefully imported `crypto/rand` manually, but I forgot to do it in one of the files. Everything compiled and worked file, and I didn't notice that in that specific file, the extension silently added a `math/rand` import.

Since then, I import `crypto/rand` as `cryptorand` to avoid the wrong `rand` to be automatically imported.

By the way, Zig also uses a ChaCha8-based random number generator, and for cryptographic operations, people can't supply their own generator; the secure one is always used. For testing, some functions accept an explicit seed.
For constrained environments, the standard library also includes a smaller one based on the Ascon permutation and the Reverie construction.
Joe Studwell - How Asia works, and all Nick Lane.

The first is, despite its name, a manual for countries on how to win at capitalism. A must read to understand what works and what doesn't in macroeconomics.

About Nick Lane, he's an English biochemist working on cutting-edge investigation regarding the cell and origin of life. His work is very deep and leaves me with a sense of awe, of what nature and natural selection has 'built' and why life is the way it is.
I can think of one country in the whole world (Iceland) where a company can tell the country it operates from, NO.

However in this case (an operating police officer who gave information to a group who wants to split away from the country) i make a bold assumption that even Iceland would order the company to give the data out (since it has nothing to do with protecting journalists/whistleblowers, but espionage)
Ask HN: Is Leetcode Still Viable?
I'm wondering if Leetcode is still a viable tool for preparing for industry coding interviews or if there are better alternatives now.

Specifically, are there any open-source platforms that offer a robust list of challenges?
Awareness is just the basic state of most animal life, it has to be for it to function. It isn't particularly more interesting than a venus fly trap.

Self-awareness is something altogether different. The ability to look inward and analyze oneself, to effect the environment rather than just be a part of it...these are massive departures from the norm, responsible for everything that makes humanity great and terrible.

How could that not be the more fascinating area to study?
Are you saying SpaceX is benefiting from NASA's diversity initiative?
tl;dr : enough incoming light will be scattered out of the central region around the focal point that you can't turn a "vacuum" central region into a spherically symmetric non-rotating black hole with masses less than tens of thousands of suns, when you start with a spherically symmetric shell of light.

Choice quote, after equation (9): "The intensity required to form a laboratory-scale kugelblitz (R ~< 1m) would be of approximately 10^83 W/m^2, more than 50 orders of magnitude above the state-of-the-art laser pulse intensities, which reach 10^27 W/m^2. For astrophysical sources, the intensity required is still many orders of magnitude above he highest-intensity sources in the universe, including quasars and supernovae [...] total power input must [be much more than] the bolometric luminosity of the brightest quasars [...] for any kugelblitz radius above the Planck length."
Or SemiRand, UnsafeRand, that kinda thing. Bit more explicit naming. I feel like a lot of Go's naming is down to legacy / what people are used to, which on the one side is good because familiarity, but on the other it opens it up to the same mistakes and confusion that has already been made in the past.
"Learns" means "have been instructed by the government to report without evidence"
Sad to hear your team was like that, mine definitely went the way of "if you know which way you're going to solve a problem anyway, why bother writing a design doc?" and I never felt burdened by them.
AI that makes phone calls for you
I hate phone calls, so I made this AI that does it for you

It can call hair salons, restaurants, and doctors office to make appointments for you.

Its called CallBud, let me know what you think. https://callbudai.com/
Good work needs to look good in order to be seen. And in enterprise, it needs to be able to be compared in order to be fair and afford some level of control from top down.

Standards solve those problems at the cost of some overhead and waste, due to being what they are: a fairly generic reification of best practice (at best).

Even though some overhead is just inherently part of the game, the efficacy of standards (and metrics) does vary. Not all have equal merit. And it does sound like some of the Google standards went off the rails a bit.
You can always shut down rather than do so - it's happened in the US.
Energy wasting, noisy, dangerous and no use case maybe?
In TFA I wrote that you can remain lucky for a while if you are managing a good team of a double digit size, among some other situations.

Luck runs out much more quickly at triple digits. That said, even at single digits, it's good to know how things work when you're not so lucky.